''War Orphans'' is an album by the Swedish pianist
Bobo Stenson
Bobo Stenson (born Bo Gustav Stenson; 4 August 1944) is a Swedish jazz pianist. The Bobo Stenson Trio, formed in collaboration with Anders Jormin (bass) and Jon Fält (drums), has been in existence for four decades.
Career
Stenson studied with ...
, recorded in 1997 and released on the
ECM label.
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Reception
The
AllMusic
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review by Thom Jurek stated: "While the last Bobo Stenson Trio offering found the band cohesively searching for a new harmonic language together and separately as composers, on War Orphans they seem to have found it".
[Jurek, T]
AllMusic Review
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Track listing
:''All compositions by Anders Jormin except as indicated''
# "Oleo de Mujer Con Sombrero" (
Silvio Rodríguez
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.
He is widely considered Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. Known for his in ...
) - 8:32
# "Natt" - 8:10
# "All My Life" (
Ornette Coleman) - 6:25
# "Eleventh of January" - 5:58
# "War Orphans" (Coleman) - 6:17
# "Sediment" (Jormin) 5:22
# "Bengali Blue" (Bobo Stenson) 8:18
# "Melancholia" (
Duke Ellington) - 5:28
:*Recorded at the Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in May 1997
Personnel
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Bobo Stenson
Bobo Stenson (born Bo Gustav Stenson; 4 August 1944) is a Swedish jazz pianist. The Bobo Stenson Trio, formed in collaboration with Anders Jormin (bass) and Jon Fält (drums), has been in existence for four decades.
Career
Stenson studied with ...
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piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
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Anders Jormin
Anders Bertil Michael Jormin (born 7 September 1957) is a Swedish bassist and composer.
Jormin established a musical partnership with Bobo Stenson in the mid-1980s which led to international recognition playing with Charles Lloyd, in the early ...
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bass
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Jon Christensen —
drums
References
See also
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Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw
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ECM Records albums
Bobo Stenson albums
1998 albums
Albums produced by Manfred Eicher